6. Preliminary study of the area

• Study the written instructions for surveyors meant to collect names (see Chapter VIII in the UNGEGN manual)

• Know what name categories should be collected (+ definitions of those categories)

• Know what sources have to be consulted

• Produce a final name model or name sheet, with correct font sizes indicated

• Instruct on the way the names have to be rendered on the name model

• Use rules for hyphenating names, abbreviations

• Sometimes, height data have to be included on maps